The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-06
COMMENT AND OPINION.

THE rebel-fag order doesn't appear to have
borne good Democratic fruit even in Kentucky.
Chicago Journal.
If prohibition has made the; inroads indicated
in Kentucky, it is time for anti prohibition
statesmen to pause and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Inquirer.
THE man who tackles the Mormon succession
will be in no better fix than the reckless in
divldual who climbs upon the Bulgarian throne.
st. Louis Post Dispatch.
IT will save Democratic strife-stirrers the ex-
penditure of much useless energy if they will
take noice that the Republican party kindly but
firmly declines to fuss.-New York Tribune.
CANADA cannot do better than surrender Nc
Garigle, not because she must but because an
honorable government should have no favors to
show to convicted criminals. -Chicago News.
Miss GEORGE WILLIE CURTIS has finally
Tilted her first last and only 1ove-Grover Cleve-
land. George will have to flock by herself now
for nobody else will have her.-MinneapolisT rib-
une.
that Democracy and genuine reform of any sort
are incompatible and incongruous and will never
coalesce. the cause for which they labor is ma
terially advanced pv reason of that very discov-
ery.-Philadelphia Press
THERE should be hiegling with the Hig
einses anywhere. They dead weight
the administration and if they are so welded to
Republican methods, they should be required to
practice them outside the Democratic camp.
charleston News and Courier.
PEOPLE who will allow whole counties to be
disfranchised by fraudulent apportionment, will
approve of disfranchisng by tally forge
ries. There IS no difference between the two
methods of disfranchisement and yet there
men who pretend to be Christians who uphold
both by voting with the party that maintains
power by one the ether, or both.-lndiana
Christian Advocate.
THE muewumps little late with their
Indictment. for the President has now discov-
cred that he is candidate for second term,
and ne is preparing under the immediate man.
agement of the partisan politicians, to inaugur-
ate his boom in various parts of the South and
West. Civil-service reform, league letters and
July orders will be allowed to fall into ''innoou-
Gus desuetude Chicago Tribune.
EVERY sensible citizen of Georgia would ad-
NIT that nothing could be more unwise than TO
stimulate hostility of race in the popula-
ton by means of penal laws. Each race in
Georgia undoubtedly prefers separate schools
few persons who Indifferent to the separa-
ton, and by that course to retard the indispen-
sable education of half the population, would be
unspeakable folly.-Harpers Weekly.
THE Republican papers of the West make the
assertion that the Democrats of the Nation dare
not put in their platform next year such plank
of the tariff as that lately adopted at the
Democratic State convention in Ohio. We fear
this is all true. There is constant cowardice
in the Democratic ranks that subject. under
which tLev generally lose liberal tariff vote
from the Republicans that is tending their way,
while they gain nothing in any other direction.
Boston Herald.
Mr. Stanford, ex. Governor of California, Unit
ed States Senator and president of the Central
Pacific railroad, coolly says that if the govern
ment will pay what he claims to be due to the
railroad company the property of that malodor-
corporation will willingly be turned to
the government. OF course. But what kind of
State is it that will send such embodiment
of concentrated gall AS this Wholesale monopo-
list to represent it in the United States Senate2
Has the Pacific coast lost ali sense of decency9
-Peiladephia Record.